The most bizarre thing? This was done in 2013. That means that someplace on the internet still had Robertman 2 available for download that late. It certainly wasn't my old website where I had it downloadable -- that's been dead and gone for ages -- so I wasn't sure where the heck someone could've gotten it.
Poking around a bit with Google just now, though, I found that apparently someone had uploaded it to Zophar's Domain at some point. I can only assume that "someone" wasn't me, as I don't recall ever actually putting any of my ROM hacks on that site (or any site other than my own, actually) and for some reason the uploader put the creator's name as simply "Eddie" (even though the name I used in the hack itself was "Dark Blubber") and linked to the old Gomamon Farm site which no longer exists. I downloaded the IPS and apparently it was last changed sometime in 2003 -- which, for a second, I thought might mean that it was a very recent version of the hack... but then I remembered that my ROM files are also from 2003 and didn't have the Grakker graphics or any other changes I might have made later on. So I figure this is probably the exact same version as what I have on my computer now. A little more investigation reveals that whoever uploaded this one also added Goma-Mario and KL Final Fantasy to the site's listing as well, and apparently somebody at some point submitted the ancient version of my awful spoofy Pokémon Gold/Silver hack Dopeymon to I-Mockery as a possible "ROM hack review" candidate (sadly, it seems like they never actually did it... or hardly any other new hacks since the last time I checked the site, for that matter. All the ones I see on the page now are ones I remember from years ago.)
Poking around a bit more, I find that there's also a Japanese website that randomly has Robertman 2 on a list of Megaman ROM hacks. I wonder if people have found it from there and think this is some bizarre Japanese hack now, or something. That'd be kinda funny. As far as the other hacks, Goma-Mario seems to have been spread around quite a bit, strangely enough -- while Robertman 2 was only mentioned on a few sites that I could find through Google, KL Final Fantasy never got mentioned anywhere besides randomly being uploaded to Zophar's Domain, and Dopeymon was all but forgotten aside from it being on a (now dead) hack download site and being brought up once on some hacking forum (where some random person proceeded to take credit for it even though they had nothing to do with it and probably were still in elementary school when I actually made it back in 2002 or so)... I'm getting almost a full page of ROM hack list sites with Goma-Mario among their listings. Weird.
I also came across a forum post where someone was trying to make an actual story/game out of the "4 hacks mashed together" thing, which used several of the bosses' names as-is (which I wouldn't be too happy about, if not for the whole "they never actually made it" thing XD) but also changed Numnum Man, Kirb Man, and Chef Eato to "Numan," "Kirb," and "Ito." Interestingly, they gave Edwin -- who was either Eddie's clone or evil twin, depending on which version of the story -- the ability to create clones of himself. There's no way they could have known he was actually a clone himself, so it's just a funny coincidence, but still.
Weird how some of my ancient stuff has somehow managed to live on, scattered here and there across the Internet, thanks to... whoever randomly uploaded these things to another website who-knows-how-long ago.
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